March, Munich, GermanyHistory of Geophysics and Space Physics
One day session during the Annual Meeting of the German Geophysical
Society
For further information contact: Dr. Wilfried Schroeder, Hechelstrasse 8,
D-28777 Bremen-Roennebeck, Germany.
See also this
Announcement

April 7-8, Hamburg, GermanyThe Popularization of Sciences, international Symposium on occasion of the
40th anniversary of the Institut fuer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften,
Mathematik und Technik; includes presentations on history of astronomy
Information: Gudrun Wolfschmidt, e-mail
wolfschmidt@math.uni-hamburg.de

April 10-12, Leeds, UKScience in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical - an interdisciplinary
Conference
Place: University of Leeds
Deadlines: 1 June 1999
Further Information: Dr. J. R. Topham, School of Philosophy,
University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK, e-mail:
j.r.topham@leeds.ac.uk (no file
attachments please), tel: 0114-2228484 or 0113-2333280,
fax: 0114-2228481 or 0113-2333265
See also this
Announcement

April 25-27, Leiden, The NetherlandsLooking Ahead In Wonder: From Comets To The Universe.
Oort Centenary Symposium
The program will focus on the areas of research to which Jan Oort himself
has made fundamental contributions, or in which he was specially interested.
Contact: Janet Soulsby, Leiden Observatory, Postbus 9513,
NL 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands, Tel: 31 71 5275833, Fax: 31 71 5275819,
e-mail: oortsymp@strw.leidenuniv.nl
URL:
http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~oortsymp/

June 23-24, London, UKPortraiture and Scientific Identity
A copy of the final programme can be sent to
those who provide the Education Department of the National Portrait Gallery
(St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE) with a stamped addressed envelop
marked 'BSHS conference'.
Further information: Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, School of World Art
Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4
7TJ, UK, e-mail:
l.jordanova@uea.ac.uk
See also this
Announcement

September 15, London, UKIdeas Whose Time Had Come, a British Society for the History of
Science/Royal Institution conference
Includes also papers on cases from the history of astronomy.
Contacts: BSHS Executive Secretary, 31 High Street, Stanford in the Vale,
Faringdon, Oxon SN7 8LH, UK
See also the announcement in
ENHA 43, Item 3.

September 22-24, Pittsburgh, Pa., USAJASHOPS 2000: Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of the Physical
Sciences - Interactions Between the History and the Philosophy of Science
Submitted papers should be concrete historical investigations on any topic
in the history of physics, astronomy, chemistry, biophysics or
geosciences. All are invited to submit papers, though preference will be
given to students and recent Ph.D.'s.
Contacts: e-mail: jashops+@pitt.edu
URL:
http://www.pitt.edu/~jashops/

October 29-30, Tacoma, Washington, USAOne Hundred Years of the Quantum: From Max Planck to Entanglement
Sessions: (1) historical perspectives on Planck's work and the early
development of quantum mechanics, (2) twentieth-century debates about
the interpretation of quantum mechanics, (3) new topics in quantum
physics, including quantum optics and quantum computing.
Deadline for submission of contributed papers: March 1, 2000
Deadline for registration: September 1, 2000
Contact: Prof. Alan Thorndike, Dept. of Physics, University of Puget
Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416, USA. (253) 879-3817,
e-mail: thorndike@ups.edu
URL:
http://www.ups.edu/physics/maxplanck

November 2-5, Cleveland, USAAnnual Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Papers on all topics of early modern history of science and medicine
are invited.
Contacts: Gerhild Scholz Williams, Department of German, Box 1104,
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 63130, Phone 314-935-5151,
e-mail:
gerhild_williams@aismail.wustl.edu

November 23-26, Goettingen, GermanyGoettingen and the Development of the Natural Sciences: Perspectives on
Place and the Professoriate
Contacts: Nicolas Rupke, Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte,
Humboldtallee 11, D-37073 Goettingen, Germany, e-mail:
nrupke@gwdg.de